Innholdsfortegnelse for 2/13/2016 i Billboard Magazine

SALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BY The week’s most popular current songs across all genres, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz for complete rules and explanations. © 2016, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved. Justin bieber RU LES atop the Billboard Hot 100 for another week, but with a twist: The pop superstar earns the rare distinction of replacing himself at the top as his single “Love Yourself ” rises 2-1 (on the…

FOUNDER , MOM + POP MUS IC During the 1990s, Michael “Goldie” Goldstone was the music exec whom everyone wanted to be. He began working at Chrysalis Records as a teenager, gradually found his way into A&R and his first signing — Texas guitar ace-turned-heartthrob Charlie Sexton — reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200 in 1986. But he soon immersed himself in the late-’80s alt-rock scene and signed the ill-fated Seattle quintet Mother Love Bone — whose singer, Andrew Wood, died of a heroin overdose in 1990, weeks before the release of the band’s debut. Yet that group morphed into Pearl Jam (which has sold 32.5 million albums in the United States, according to Nielsen Music), and during the next 18 years — at Epic, DreamWorks and Sire —…

Jefferson Airplane founder, songwriter and guitarist-vocalist Paul Kantner died Jan. 28 in San Francisco of multiple organ failure, brought on by septic shock, at the age of 74. Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir pays tribute to his friend and fellow rhythm guitarist. Paul was a friend of mine. Musically, we kind of grew up together. The Airplane was always a little bigger than we were; they were a step or two ahead of the Dead in terms of acceptance. But there was no rivalry; there was a sense of camaraderie more than anything. He and I occupied the same chair in our orchestras; we were both rhythm guitarists. But early on, he played a lot of 12-string, and I didn’t do that, so we didn’t compete. We were on different…

On YouTube, there are not one, but two videos that show Thomas Rhett enjoying a travel brochure’s worth of activities in Hawaii with his wife, Lauren Akins. They’re smooching underwater. They’re canoodling in a tree. They’re jumping from a plane and high-fiving in the air. The country singer (born Thomas Rhett Akins), 25, seems to have figured out how to get the most out of a video shoot. “Paid vacation!” he says jokingly, seated on a couch in a downtown Nashville office. “The next video is actually going to be shot in Ireland and Australia — I’m kidding.” Part of the footage, filmed in northern Oahu, was paired with his 2015 hit “Vacation,” but the most intimate clips were reserved for his current smash — the one that’s dominating radio…

Among the 100 million viewers expected to tune in to Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, when Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers take on Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, will be three of music’s biggest football fans: rapper Ja Rule, American Idol champ Jordin Sparks and country star Lee Brice. Like everyone else, they’ve got predictions for the big game, and they shared them with Billboard. (Sorry, Denver fans.) So, who wins and by how much? Sparks 35-17, Panthers. Peyton Manning is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, but ultimately, the Panthers are going to win. Brice 28-21, Panthers. The Broncos are going to slow down [quarterback] Cam Newton, maybe more than any team this year. But unless Peyton puts on some real magic — which…

Y’all know y’all are dead wrong to have that dude play M.J. If that’s the case let me be Superman.” —CHRIS BROWN The singer reacting on Twitter to white actor Joseph Fiennes being cast as Michael Jackson in a British TV comedy. “The ghostwriter told me!” —MEEK MILL The rapper explaining on Instagram how his new Drake diss track “War Pain” responded so specifically to lines from the 6 God’s “Summer Sixteen,” released just hours prior. “How many people here thought you would like Justin Bieber?” —JUSTIN BIEBER The star speaking to the crowd at L.A. hotspot 1Oak, where he performed an impromptu set. “I would sleep with literally every member of this cast.” —ANNA KENDRICK The Pitch Perfect star tweeting about Fox’s Grease: Live, which featured Vanessa Hudgens, Julianne…

WHILE JONAS, ONE OF THE WORST winter storms in recent memory, effectively shut down New York with more than two feet of snow, the Brooklynbased rockers of Highly Suspect made their way to John Varvatos’ Soho boutique to get styled for the Grammy Awards. In a year of firsts, which began with the band’s debut LP, Mister Asylum (300 Entertainment), and culminated with nominations for best rock album and best rock song, vocalist-guitarist Johnny Stevens, drummer Ryan Meyer and bassist Richard Meyer also experienced being dressed by a designer. “We’ve come into the store before, but only to look,” says 30-year-old Ryan, who along with his bandmates has a penchant for T-shirts and dark denim. “As far as personal style, I’m not one to get suited up, but the Grammys…

EVERY YEAR, FROM A STUDIO NESTLED IN THE San Juan Mountains, John Billings, 69, leads a three-man crew in handcrafting the music industry’s most coveted possession. Billings, who produces the 24K-gold-plated prizes in batches of 30, with each requiring roughly 15 hours of manpower, began his Grammy journey in 1976, when the Southern California native apprenticed with his best friend’s father, mold-maker Bob Graves. When Graves died, in 1983, Billings took over the business and now — through his company Billings Artworks, located in Ridgway, Colo. (population: 962) — creates approximately 580 Grammy Awards annually (including 230 Latin Grammys). The first trophies were made of lead, but today Billings uses his own special zinc alloy (which he named Grammium) to manufacture the Recording Academy’s laurels. The Academy pays him per…

Adore Life Matador Records Post-punk gets an edgy (if occasionally monotonous) revival IF BRITISH ROCKERS SAVAGES TRIED to pass as contemporaries of Bauhaus and Siouxsie & The Banshees, no one would have doubted them: They too have bat-cave sonics, an eccentric but hard-pummeling rhythm section, a monomaniacally warbling vocalist and a feral texturalist of a guitarist. Their second album sharpens their instrumental attack, while singer Jehnny Beth exposes her bloody heart — nearly every song addresses desire as a force that can destroy a lover’s identity. “Love is a disease/The strongest addiction I know,” she yelps in “Sad Person,” a tune that makes flirtation sound terrifying. Guitarist Gemma Thompson’s prickly, minor-key riffs can get repetitive throughout Adore Life, but they’re bracing in single doses, from the high-friction grind and…

EARTH, WIND & FIRE’S PHILIP BAILEY, 64, IS in his car, driving on an errand through Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., some 40 miles east of Los Angeles. If he flicks on the radio, he could easily tune in to more than one Southern California station playing his band, likely something from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, when hits like “Shining Star,” “After the Love Is Gone” and “September” dominated. Forty-seven years after Maurice White, 74, formed the multimember group in Chicago with younger brother Verdine White, 64, on bass and Bailey on vocals, EWF’s blend of R&B, rock, pop, jazz and gospel endures, sounding as contemporary as when it was first released. That’s why the band — already inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters…

GRYFFIN FINDS CHART ‘HOME’ New York producer Gryffin’s single “Heading Home” (Darkroom/Interscope) featuring Josef Salvat debuts at No. 5 on Billboard + Twitter Emerging Artists and No. 22 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs with 574,000 U.S. streams in the week ending Jan. 28, according to Nielsen Music. “Home” is the first original song from Gryffin, best known for his popular remixes of songs by Tove Lo and others. RADIO’ S NEW ‘GIRL’ She has written hits like Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart” and even earned a 2015 Grammy nomination for best new artist. Now singer-songwriter Brandy Clark is looking for a country radio smash of her own, with “Girl Next Door” (Warner Bros. Nashville/Warner Music Nashville), announcing her arrival at the format. The single will go to radio on Feb. 15.…

The Way She Moves Ellie Goulding nets her second No. 1 on the Adult Top 40 airplay chart as “On My Mind” jumps 4-1. She previously led in May 2015 with “Love Me Like You Do” from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. “Mind” is the first single from Delirium, which became the pop star’s highest-charting album on the Billboard 200 when it debuted at No. 3 in November. The set has sold 117,000 copies, according to Nielsen Music, while “Mind” has moved 809,000 downloads. Meanwhile, second Delirium single “Something in the Way You Move” bounds 25-18 in its third week on Mainstream Top 40.…

15% THIS WEEK THE 1975’S “THE SOUND” STREAMS 959,000 43% THIS WEEK LALAH HATHAWAY’S “ANGEL” AUDIENCE 9 MILLION 11% THIS WEEK BROTHERS OSBORNE’S “STAY A LITTLE LONGER” STREAMS 1 .4 MILLION AFTER A LONG, TUMULTUOUS ROLLOUT, Rihanna’s Anti album arrived Jan. 27 along with lead single “Work,” landing the superstar singer back on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts. Despite being available for only a little more than a day’s worth of the tracking week (the latest one ended Jan. 28), Anti enters at No. 27 on the Billboard 200. The album was first released exclusively through Tidal’s streaming service on the evening of Jan. 27 — just hours after it leaked online. The next day, it bowed commercially through Tidal, and then through all digital…

“WHEN I SAID I DO” CLINT AND LISA HARTMAN BLACK One of country’s most enduring couples, the Blacks toasted their then-decade-long marriage with this 1999 hit. “LOVE IS THE FOUNDATION,” LORETTA LYNN The singer composed many songs about the stormy side of her marriage to Oliver “Mooney” Lynn, but this 1974 hit emphasized the happier times. “I STILL BELIEVE IN YOU” VINCE GILL Gill wrote this 1992 Hot Country Songs No. 1 for his then-wife, fellow star Janis.…

PREGAME PUMP-UP Harris “No Reason,” Lil Wayne. “I’m one of the fans still riding with him, even though some people don’t think he’s good anymore. I still love Wayne.” Daniels “Tivoli vs. Walking on a Dream,” Steve Angello and Empire of the Sun. “I love this remix — I have to walk onto the field to it.” GUILTY PLEASURE Harris “Snap Yo Fingers,” Lil Jon. “I think [Broncos coach Gary] Kubiak would dance to this one for sure.” Daniels “Bad Romance,” Lady Gaga. “Gaga kind of goes hard — I went to see her live, it was really impressive.” POST-WIN ANTHEM Harris “A-Team,” Travis Scott. “Because that’s us!” Daniels “Big Rings,” Drake and Future. “I really hope — fingers crossed — we’ll be hearing that when we get…

NAME Fleur East FROM London AGE 28 BACK STORY At 17, East (yes, that’s her real name) made it past X Factor U.K. auditions with her girl group Addictiv Ladies in 2005 — much to judge Simon Cowell’s skepticism — but only lasted a week on the show. Still, it sparked a hunger: “I knew from that moment that music is 100 percent what I wanted to do,” the singer-rapper-dancer says. SECOND CHANCES After a stint at journalism school, East eked by as a session vocalist and waitress. “It got to a point where I had to take my final shot or switch to a different career,” she says. She took a friend’s advice to audition for The X Factor in 2014 again, this time as a solo act. “Simon…

Matter Columbia Throwback Brooklyn synth-poppers make heartbreak sound huge THE EARLY-’80S MOVEMENT KNOWN as new romanticism got its name in part because of its fixation on grandeur — the electrified hooks sounded impossibly huge, but the heartbreak and yearning embedded within somehow loomed even larger. The Brooklyn pop outfit St. Lucia’s second album takes those big ideas, pumps them full of synths and drama, and adds a few 21st-century flourishes. The result is a record that grabs its listener by the hand from the opening squiggle of “Do You Remember” and doesn’t let go until the drone that closes the twinkling “Always” finally fades. St. Lucia mastermind Jean-Philip Grobler sings with enough force to make even the simplest declaration sound like a plea from the bottom of his heart,…

Krugman Bullish On Lucius Brooklyn-based indie pop band Lucius isn’t just a critics’ darling. The five-piece group, led by Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, has an avid fan in Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman. The End This Depression Now! author attended the band’s jam-packed showcase at the Gramercy Park Hotel’s Rose Bar in New York and wrote about the gig in his Times blog, The Conscience of a Liberal. Posting a photo he took at the show of a very tall guy — who from the back resembled actor Adam Driver (of Star Wars: The Force Awakens) — obstructing his view, Krugman wrote that he had “a wonderful time despite Kylo Ren in the way.” He also deemed Lucius’ performance, which highlighted the group’s…

Need another reminder that Nick Jonas ain’t on Disney anymore? In the first few minutes of new movie Goat, he snorts coke and plots a foursome. But the film, an unflinching look at fraternities, takes a much darker turn after that: Jonas, 23, who plays the older brother of a new pledge, participates in horrifying scenes depicting hazing gone wrong. After premiering to strong reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in January (and picking up a $2.25 million deal from Paramount Home Media), Goat has yet to announce a theatrical release, but it’s a big-screen breakout for Jonas, who also stars in Audience Network’s series Kingdom. Jonas sat down with Billboard to talk Goat, his “nearly finished” second solo album and brotherly love (and tension). What attracted you to this…

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To many, including the voters with whom Billboard spoke, Kendrick Lamar is the frontrunner for album of the year, where he’s up against Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Alabama Shakes and Chris Stapleton. The 2014 Grammy Awards — in which he was shut out of seven categories, and lost best rap album to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis — presumably will be weighing on voters’ minds. “Being the underdog that didn’t get the credit helps him this year,” says Daniel Glass, founder of Glassnote Records and a Grammy voter. But To Pimp a Butterfly, which would be only the third hip-hop album to ever take the top prize, is by no means a lock. Voters might reward its sophistication — or be alienated by it. “There’s jazz in there, and that’s why…

CNCO “TAN FACIL” SONY MUSIC Does a Latin boy band have a prayer? CNCO, the product of Univision and Simon Cowell’s reality show La Banda, isn’t taking chances with this catchy hit, built on the current chart-winning equation of romantic melodies over a reggaeton beat. Produced by Wisin, it’s not unique in sound or execution, but it’s immediately hummable — step one to boy-band success. —LEILA COBO AKON “HYPNOTIZED” ATLANTIC RECORDS The Senegalese-American singer, best known for his mid-aughts R&B hits, takes a different tack with this slowwine Afropop-influenced tune, mellow enough for AC yet still worthy of a dance remix. After the success of Nico & Vinz’s “Am I Wrong,” top 40 could be ready for an Akon renaissance. —NATALIE WEINER ZAYN “PILLOWTALK” RCA RECORDS Dropping One…

NUMBERS : ZAYN’S FIRST HIT Former One Direction member Zayn Malik officially steps out on his own with his first solo single, “Pillowtalk” (credited simply to “Zayn”). The cut was released by RCA on Jan. 29 and opens at No. 1 on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart. It’s set to bow on the Billboard Hot 100 dated Feb. 20. 1.9 M Fans of Malik were very engaged on Twitter, as he tallied 1.9 million mentions in the week ending Jan. 31 (up 332 percent), according to Next Big Sound. In the same period, he also logged 1.8 million retweets (up 381 percent). 8 M The song drew 8 million in allformat radio audience during its first three days, according to Nielsen Music, and just misses debuting on the…